Looking for democracy in fiduciary government. Historical notes on an unsettled relationship (ca. 1520-1650)*

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A recent perspective on the normative foundations of public law has proposed to conceive citizen-state relationships as a “fiduciary relationship”, using private-law fiduciary duties to justify legal and moral constrains on state power. Fiduciary government has also been pointed as a distinct feature of republicanism and popular sovereignty, since it places the political community as trustor and beneficiary of any administrative act. This paper reviews some early modern conceptions of government considering their explicit fiduciary justifications. It concludes with a fiduciary account of Leveller natural law, especially needed to understand (and maybe to restore) the relationship between fiduciary government and democracy.

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Guerrero, D. (2020, September 1). Looking for democracy in fiduciary government. Historical notes on an unsettled relationship (ca. 1520-1650)*. Daimon. Universidad de Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones. https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon.428801

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